Subject: bug#12689: 24.2; Eshell ${cmd} substitution

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:12:53 +0100

Aidan Gauland <[email-masked]> writes:

> In Eshell, ${cmd} expands to nil.
> e.g.
> $ echo ${/bin/echo -e "foo\nbar"}
> $ 
> Note the absence of any output from `echo'.
>
> $ echo ${/bin/echo -e "foo\nbar"}-foo
> nil-foo
> n$ 

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Looks like this has been fixed in the decade since it was reported:

/ $ echo ${/bin/echo -e "foo\nbar"}
("foo" "bar")
/ $ echo ${/bin/echo -e "foo\nbar"}-foo
("foo" "bar")-foo

So I'm therefore closing this bug report.  If there's more to be done
here, please respond to the debbugs address and we'll reopen.

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